Two held over stabbing

Detectives were today quizzing two men over the murder of teacher Robert Symons who was killed when he confronted a burglar in his Chiswick home.

Scotland Yard said the men aged 22 and 26 were being questioned at separate west London police stations.

Five people in total, including one woman, were arrested yesterday lunchtime. Today police released two of the men, aged 26 and 23, and the 19-yearold women on bail. They are due to report to a west London police station in December.

The arrests came as it was revealed the street where Mr Symons, 45, lived was in the grip of a burglary epidemic.

Neighbours of Mr Symons, who was stabbed in the heart by a thief on his doorstep last week, have told how burglary is soaring.

In the three streets surrounding his £1 million home in Airedale Avenue there have been seven recorded break-ins in the last three months. One resident told how only last month she confronted a thief in her living room at 3am.

Bernie Rands, 53, said: "I went downstairs, walked into the room and saw him standing there. He got in through the window. As soon as he saw me he legged it back out."

Two months ago, she and husband Anthony, 54, found a man collapsed at the end of the street in a pool of blood after cutting himself trying to break into a nearby house.